Stardew Valley Mods I Use

[alias_sqbr]

Because I kept having to link them, and because some people might be interested! There's some great ones out there.



A guide to installing Stardew Valley mods It's a little troublesome to start with but very easy once you have it set up.

Mods are available for Mac, PC, and android, though android only works with an older version of the game which limits your options.

Mod marked with an asterix are by me.

Prettiness:

• Simple Foliage Makes all the trees and bushes GORGEOUS.
  
• *Starry Blue User Interface
  
• Elle's Animals All adorable! Elle has some building and grass mods too, I haven't tried them but they look nice.
  
• *Cuter Mines Cuter monsters and backgrounds in the mines and caves.
  
• Less Ugly Town Interiors
  
• Starblue Valley World Recolor Makes the grass/dirt/water etc nicer colours.
  
• Vanilla Tweaks Makes items prettier.
  
• Medieval buildings Makes the farm buildings pretty and covered in flowers.
  
• Way Back Pelican Town Makes the town buildings pretty and covered in flowers.
  

Non binary friendly:

• Swimsuit Selection: ungendered bathing suits.
  
• *Gender Setter: Set the genders and pronouns of all NPCs and the farmer, includes androgynous character art and other changes.
  
• Pregnancy Role Set pregnancy and adoption separate to gender.
  
• Gender Neutrality Mod Set the Farmer's gender and pronouns. These days I just use Gender Setter but this has more options.
  

Quality of Life:

• Generic Mod Config Menu Makes tweaking the settings of other mods much easier.
  
• Free Love Marry as many people as you like!
  
• NPC Map Locations
  
• CJB Cheats Menu I'm not sure how much I'll use this for regular play but it makes testing mods MUCH easier.
  

Changes plot I didn't like:

• *Renamed Dwarves Uses the in-game word "smoluanu" instead of "dwarves".
  
• *Kent Does The Dishes: Kent and Jodi are a little less miserable.
  
• Misc introduction fixes Grandpa's skin colour matches the farmer
  
• Emyn's Diverse Ginger Island
  
• Hippie Desert Trader
  
• Dammit Clint Stop Hitting On My Wife
  
• SFG's No More War - Kent as Journalist
  

Some notable popular mods I haven't tried myself:

• Diverse Stardew Valley
  
• Stardew Valley Expanded HUGE expansion with new characters and places
  
• Ridgeside Village large expansion with new characters and places
  
• East Scarp expansion with new characters and places, compatible with a lot of other people's custom NPCs
  
• Fashion Sense New clothes for your farmer!
  

Other mods I am thinking about trying:

• Secret Garden Farm A pretty farm layout
  
• Museum Expansion Adds new plot and quests.
  
• Stardew Valley Aquarium
  
• Deep Woods
  

If you want even more recs, check out this wiki page. There's definitely a lot of cool ones out there that I haven't linked.

Using this many mods hasn't caused me any major bugs so far but it does make the game notably slower to load. There are people on the discord with hundreds of mods, apparently this can cause Issues but they have no regrets.

Comments

[delphi]

Oh, I had no idea there was a mod to go non-binary with your farmer! This is a literal gamechanger.

[alias_sqbr]

It makes SUCH a difference to my enjoyment of the game. There's also https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/10191 which has slightly different features, but they're all basically similar. I definitely rec adding the swimsuit mod as well if you don't want your character in shorts or a bikini, it's a little janky but made a big difference to my enjoyment of the hot springs.

[delphi]

Thanks!